Category: piano

22 posts

• 12/29/2015Accidentally discovering and performing some music by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth: Coração que Sente
• 11/5/2014The single greatest performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Pierre Hantaï with rhythmic drive and life
• 11/2/2014Lessons to learn from pianist Dejan Lazić's attempt to remove a critic's bad review
• 8/29/2014I just saw and heard the most amazing performance of Schumann's Fantasy for piano by Alexandre Moutouzkine
• 8/22/2014Discovering the beautiful keyboard playing of Robert Hill by accident on YouTube changed my life
• 7/4/2014Third year at July 3 music party and finally participated in jamming
• 3/8/2014Thoughts on attending the Duquesne Young Artist Performance Awards Winners Showcase
• 3/6/2014Thoughts on returning to ukulele after almost two months off: returning to piano was the reason
• 9/13/2013RIP Ray Dolby: yes, I still have cassette tapes!
• 8/24/2013RIP Marian McPartland of Piano Jazz
• 7/5/2013More summer musical partying, and another ten-year-old dream fulfilled!
• 7/4/2013Second year at July 3 music party: still only listening without playing
• 5/8/2013Happy birthday, Johannes Brahms! 3 takes on a musical favorite
• 4/13/2013Singing and playing tango and jazz at an unexpected music party
• 3/23/2013RIP Bebo Valdés, master pianist of Cuban music
• 12/10/2012RIP Charles Rosen, pianist and scholar
• 12/2/2012Oblivion obsession: time to start playing melodica!
• 11/3/2012Attending the annual Pitt Jazz Seminar for the first time: day 2
• 9/25/2012Thank you, Glenn Gould, for introducing me to Schönberg!
• 6/8/2012Heinz Hall Memories: at the Pittsburgh Symphony, being shocked out of my mind upon experiencing Prokofiev's second piano concerto for the first time; also, a note on human memory
• 11/13/2011Back to piano too
• 9/22/2011Byron Janis on Overcoming Adversity